Happy teacher's day.

Well, as a future teacher I love the topic this week so I can see what my classmates thinks about this, and also express myself about everything of my profession.

First of all, I need to say that I'm against the diagnosis of ADHD, and medicate children with ritalin. I find this a horrible situation. Even the creator of this "problem", before to die, revealed that the ADHD was an invent and it not exist. So, according to this, why medicate children who are just being children? I mean, I will be worried if my students were statues in my class. That would be very sad for me.

In the other hand, I sympathize with the social fight that students and teachers are giving today because from  my perspective is the only way we can make us notice in the country, and who knows, in the world, too.

But, sometimes I feel that this fight and all the protest seems to be a waste of time because the politicians are not interested in this, I mean, it's not good for them to having a society that can thinks in a critical way. They need dumb people, who work day after day and produces money "for the country".

 But despite all of this, I love my choice to be a teacher in the future. I know I can't change the whole system on my own, but what I really can do is contribute with little actions, and change the life of a few people, my future students. In that way, I would feel rewarded as a professional and when I get older I would think "I did my best for those children".

All you need is music.

So, today we have the freedom to post whatever we want, and the only thing that came to my mind was music.

Music is something that I need in my life like I need the air to breathe, and I'm not making too much of this. I seriously mean it when I say that music is really important to me.

When I go out of my house to go to the University or somewhere else and I forget my iPod I feel empty and get so bored because I really don't know what to do in the bus without hearing some songs. At some point this sounds really crazy and funny, I guess, but I start to hear the conversations of other people or start to looking the faces of the rest of the people, and I try to imagine what are they thinking in that moment.

When I have some free time in my house I love to hear some cd's at my radio, and this is nice because my family loves music too, so every weekend we lunch hearing music, or some nights we buy snacks to watch live concerts, documentaries about music, etc. 

Since I was a little girl, I remember that my stepfather always told me that I needed to know real good music and he always taught me about the groups that he likes. So now I like almost all the groups that I know because of him, specially rock music.

It's because of music that I am so close to my family and even we had enjoy some concerts together. 

So I'm grateful of this, about all the music knowledge that my stepfather have and I think I will always remember all the moments we spend together at concerts or at home just enjoying what music gives us.

So, what about you? Do you enjoy music as much as I do?.

 

Do you fight for your life?

I think that nowadays people can learn about environment practices everywhere because in the actually we have the tools like internet to find out about what we can do to help the planet. In the other hand, I honestly hope that this practices could be teach at schools so the children can communicate to other people and their families.

I think that being 'green' has the specifically point of helping the planet and fight against the pollution, so in that way we can live more and better.
I'm not as green as I would like to be, but I have incorporated in my habits reciclying papernews, plastic bottles and glasses bottles because in my building we have reciclying points for all the people.

I have not joined or supported any eco-organisation just because I don't know any small groups to help. I think that we can help more in this small groups than in the biggest organisations. I mean in that way we actually can know what's the change that we are making.

I would like to be less dependent of technology because it's one of the kinds of pollution but we are in a moment that technology is essential for almost everything.

Finally, I think that in Santiago the people need to take more conscience to take care of the city and specially the green areas because there's a few and they are basic for something as simple as breath. In general, people don't take the weight of pollution and they don't see that in the future we are going to have a miserable life.

Tiki tiki tiii (?)

For me, Fiestas Patrias, it's just the opportunity to have a very good time with my family and friends. I think it's because I don't really get the point of it or I'm simply the grinch of patriotic celebrations. Anyway, I take advantage of this and enjoy the celebration. Most of the time I spent this holidays on relatives houses or in my own house, but I remember one in particular because I had a really great time.
It was 4 years ago on Juan Pablo's house, an old friend I don't have anymore for some reasons, and I was partying almost non stop for 2 days. It was the peak of my youth, I think, because nowadays I don't last that time awake. 

We were 15 people and I remember we were playing to throw a ball to make cans fall and also we were throwing rings to bottles in the evening. As you can see we actually didn't do any traditional games like "rayuela" or "palo encebado", but then, after this few games, we danced cueca and cumbia all night long, and we also played cards and xbox.

While we were dancing, we drank a lot of chicha, white wine, terremoto and piscolas. The party was so good that when we wanted to sleep we realized that it was 9:00 am of the next day, and this wasn't everything, because at 10:00 am my dad was waiting for me to go to a barbecue on his house with my whole family. So I couldn't sleep and obviously I had to stay awake all day sharing with my loved ones, eating empanadas and anticuchos with a lot of pebre, and still drinking chicha and terremoto.

It were 2 days full of food, drinks, games and very good people! I really loved that holiday, but I still don't change it for my last Fiestas Patrias because it was more homely, and I enjoyed with my little son, and nothing compares to him.

The people who don't remember their history, are doomed to repeat it.

Today, September 11th we remember a special event that still remain in the people's consciousness. In 1973 it happened the "Golpe Militar" where Salvador Allende, the president on those days, dies on an air attack to "La Moneda", the government house. 

About this day, I just feel sadness of thinking how was living on period of dictatorship, how many people were tortured and how now their families are still suffering about the missing people. Also, I feel really angry because many of that people was tortured only because they thought different. Musicians, writters, even common people were tortured and killed too because of that. It's really scary and just imagine it, it gives me goosebumps.

I think that it isn't Ok JUST complain about human rights violated 40 years ago, I think that now, our work is fight against this violations. In that way we don't have to live something like that again.

On the other hand, it's kind of funny how the state of Chile dealt with the people responsible for these crimes, they were living on luxurious prisons instead of paying in their own flesh for the victims. If their lifes were in my hands I would send them to the worst prisons in the world.

About people building barricades, burning tyres and being violent on this day, I think that it's not the solution or the form to remember the cruelty of the dictatorship and the missing people. I can understand that there's some angry against the system, but this only brings violence, destruction and chaos. Besides is only young people that cause this and they didn't live in days of dictatorship so they aren't the real affected. I think they want to express their angry about their families and the people who lived this, but I repeat, it's not the form or the solution to remind or make justice for this day.
In my opinion it's not outdated and it never will, because it's part of the history of our country and it will be remembered forever.

Punta Cana!

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to write about a place I would love to visit again.
In October, 2013 I traveled to Punta Cana in Republica Dominicana. Punta Cana is a region located next to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and is known for all the beaches along the coast. Also is known because their principal resource is based on the tourism. I mean, they live of the tourism, so one of the things I remember the most of my travel is that people there try to sell their work, at any cost and they are everywhere!.
I went there with my family just to know a different place, and I really loved it!
I would like to visit again because in that opportunity, we dedicated our whole time to go on tours, and we had to wake up so early that we didn't enjoy the beauty of that place to the max.
So, in this time I would like to travel just to stay on the beach enjoying the sun and the sea, and maybe stay for a few time living there with my son because I liked the weather and how is the personality of their people. Who knows. It could be a great experience so maybe I'm going to start to save money to go in the future!.